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The 34 pages that link to Recent African origin of modern humans, each with the reason it gives.

• Human evolutionRelated: Genetic and fossil evidence supports an African origin for Homo sapiens, followed by expansion.

• East African RiftRelated: Rift corridors are proposed as routes along which early hominins expanded.

• PaleoanthropologyCompared with: It is a major explanatory model tested against fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence.

• Homo erectusRelated: Its framework contrasts with the earlier dispersals of Homo erectus from Africa.

• Homo sapiensRelated: It describes the major expansion that carried Homo sapiens beyond Africa.

• AfricaRelated: It describes the continent’s role in the global dispersal of modern humans.

• PaleolithicRelated: Paleolithic migrations are central to reconstructing how humans populated other regions.

• Olduvai GorgeRelated: Olduvai strengthened attention to Africa as a central setting for human evolutionary origins.

• Human genetic variationRelated: The expansion shaped global patterns of ancestry and genetic diversity.

• QuaternaryRelated: It describes a major Quaternary migration of Homo sapiens.

• Peking ManCompared with: Peking Man once figured in debates over whether modern humans evolved independently in Asia.

• Robert BroomCompared with: Broom’s work supported Africa’s deep importance in human ancestry, though his fossils predated modern-human origin debates.

• Taung ChildRelated: Dart argued that the Taung fossil supported Africa as a key setting of human evolution.

• Mitochondrial EveRelated: Early mitochondrial studies supported an African origin for the deepest surviving maternal lineages.

• ZhoukoudianCompared with: Zhoukoudian’s fossils informed older models of regional human evolution, distinct from modern-human origins.

• Evolutionary anthropologyCompared with: It is the leading alternative to a predominantly multiregional account of modern human origins.

• HomoRelated: The model explains the global expansion of Homo sapiens from an African origin.

• Java ManRelated: Java Man informed earlier debates about human origins, distinct from modern human origins.

• Neanderthal genome projectCompared with: Neanderthal ancestry added interbreeding to a model once framed mainly as replacement.

• Raymond DartRelated: Dart’s fossil challenged claims that humanity’s earliest ancestors came from Asia.

• Franz WeidenreichCompared with: This model challenges the substantial regional continuity central to Weidenreich’s proposal.

• Hominin phylogenyCompared with: It offers a competing account of the geographic pattern behind Homo sapiens origins.

• Out of Africa migrationRelated: It is the broad explanatory framework for the Eurasian dispersal.

• Richard LeakeyRelated: East African fossils central to Leakey’s research inform evidence for this model.

• Archaic human admixtureRelated: Dispersal beyond Africa brought Homo sapiens into contact with Eurasian archaic groups.

• HumanRelated: It explains the broad geographic origin of living human populations.

• PolygenismCompared with: It explains modern human origins through shared ancestry rather than independent racial beginnings.

• Arthur KeithCompared with: African fossil evidence undermined Keith’s preference for a European center of human origins.

• Davidson BlackCompared with: Peking Man became central to debates over whether human origins were African or centered in Asia.

• Multiregional origin of modern humansCompared with: It became the principal alternative to multiregional explanations of modern human origins.

• Human evolutionary geneticsRelated: Genetic diversity and ancestry patterns strongly support an African origin for modern humans.

• Early modern humanCompared with: It captures the broad dispersal pattern but must accommodate evidence of archaic-human admixture.

• Prehistoric AsiaRelated: It frames research on the arrival of Homo sapiens in Asia.

• South Asian Stone AgeRelated: South Asian prehistoric sites help trace routes and timing of modern human dispersal.